skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A 30 second tiktok clip can give you the same type of knowledge that a 300 page book can, but it cuts to the chase, and doesn't bury the lead.

I'm sorry, this isn't just wrong, it's laughably wrong, and if this view is popular I can see why there's so little nuance in most people's understanding
Yeah, but that's a last name. I was talking about first names which is usually what people mean when they say a common name.

I'm guessing the other commenters are right, GP probably meant "Julie".
Sounds like a skill issue, mate, just sayin. Might want to grind leetcode and do some mock interviews to build those skills up.

Look, I know a lot of the job application process is bullshit. But much of the job is bullshit too. You still have to do one kind of BS in order to land the job and the other kind in order to function as part of a team in an organization. There's really no way around that.
You also don't know anything about co-ops. Frankly I think you are completely uneducated on any of this stuff.

Go look up GHI in Greenbelt, Maryland. It's one of the oldest and largest co-ops in the USA. Housing in GHI is a fraction of the cost of the surrounding neighborhood, and the cause is that you cannot rent out GHI units. Only owners can live in their own units, which means speculators and landlords are simply banned from bidding up the costs. As a result, the cost to buy a unit there is a fraction of what it is right next door, maintenance on the units is better, crime is lower, services are better. It's a 100% walk able community that is run democratically. It's really a model for how housing could be built all across the country, but I guess you are the expert, we should keep doing what we do now and just let a couple billionaires complete a monopoly on having a roof, and hope that they only ask for 100% of our income and not more.
> Qualcomm recently said that its business with Huawei is already limited and will soon shrink to nothing. It has been allowed to supply the Chinese company with chips that provide older 4G network connections. It’s prohibited from selling ones that allow 5G access.

> Huawei doesn’t rank in Qualcomm’s list of top 10 customers, according to Bloomberg supply chain analysis. It also doesn’t feature in Intel’s list of top customers.
I think this is just called progress or maybe evolution Im not sure we should relate this technology advancement to economic theory. But I do see a direct comparison to other things such as antibiotics.

We know that taking antibiotics leads to stronger bacteria. But we still should have developed it and incorporated it into our medicine. AI will do some amazing things, and as a tool it will be used by some bad people to do bad things. But overall society improves/grows with the creation and use of tools.
Are there better languages? What does it even mean to be better?

C is a great choice because I can hire people who know C and get good results. A domain specific language will not be much better than C for any of the above. It turns out that all the hard problems listed above are similar enough that someone good in one will be good in them all and so I can hire C experts from any field and get going fast without having to teach them my domain specific language that isn't really much better.
It was possible to do the same with some PC games! I have fond memories of listening to the soundtracks of Driver, and Knights and Merchants, on my little stereo.
> ... medium-term goal is to exceed ...

According to the roadmap, another Elon company should have attended fully automated driving years ago.
Pricing is not at all obtuse! Or no more than any other product on earth. It costs what people are willing to pay. Your estimation of the value takes into consideration what you believe (I'm not saying you're wrong) the costs to be, and good for you. But until people are unwilling to pay, the price will go up.
This is so cool! Does anyone know how the data is encoded in the signal? Is it just data for the game that's transmitted (and the logic resides on the ZX Spectrum) or is logic also transmitted?
> nvtop stands for NVidia TOP, a (h)top like task monitor for NVIDIA GPUs.

The Github repo[0] disagrees:
> NVTOP stands for Neat Videocard TOP, a (h)top like task monitor for GPUs and accelerators.

I have been using this on AMD for a long time now.

[0]: https://github.com/Syllo/nvtop
> I'm going to fight tooth and nail when someone calls NYC unsafe

Not the main thing I've been arguing, per-se but the fact that the national guard is being deployed into places like the subway seems to bolster the notion that NY isn't doing well.

https://abc7ny.com/subway-crime-nyc-statistics-assault/14381...

"According to the NYPD, there were 570 reports of felony assault on trains or in stations in 2023, that's the highest number in more than 20 years and a 53% jump from pre-pandemic levels."

January crime was up 50% compared to 2023 - and yes, that's a 2 year snapshot. Statistics is the game of picking the two points and saying "SEE! I'M RIGHT!"

but the main points is that violent crime is up.

The main point of my comments is more general crime - its hard to say crime is down when recent decisions to raise the bar to charge people has literally made fewer things crimes so "crime is down" can be true from a "statistically reported" perspective while actual numbers are up.

Look at California that raised the level of misdemeanor to $950... so felonies are down? Gee... I wonder why? Even though objectively more crime is happening, less is getting reported because people won't waste their time on "misdemeanors" that won't get charged by soft on crime DA. Crimes down? True... but also a lie.

Crime is running rampant as criminality is now, for all intents, legal if you're under a threshold. (or, if you're of the right demographics to "atone for past injustice")
Avec difficulte'!

Design engineer: "Turns? Turns?!"
They already have fake skylights that simulate Rayleigh scattering, but the main issue of not having window access is fire safety.
Nobody claimed rain fell upwards either.
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Pulleys are one of those things you never realize you need until you learn about them. Then, you suddenly understand just how useful they can be. Understanding the basics of rope rigging, pulleys, and mechanical advantage has made my life so much easier. Whether it's camping, hanging hammocks and tarps, using a pulley system to pull out tree stumps, securing things to my bike or pickup truck, or carrying a lot of gear at once, all of this becomes much simpler once you grasp the fundamentals of pulleys.

I honeslty think this should be taught in school, not just in physics classes, but as part of some kind of a "Life 101" course.
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A real-life example of social proof for a paid consumer app
>> is Michael Phelps (or whoever) faster on it?

Nope. He would be horrible with this device. That would be like asking a champion sprinter to compete in a wheelchair race. He would be using totally different muscles, legs rather than arms, and get schooled by most everyone with a longer history. A champion bicycle rider would do better on this contraption than any champion swimmer.

(Due to water's density, champion speed swimming is also 80% technique and body shape rather than muscle/cardio. So until the technique is developed, nobody would be "good" with this thing.)
> Most anarchists consider themselves far-left.

"Far-left" is a derogatory term, a synonym for "left-wing extremist". Nobody considers themselves an extremist. I've noticed that my own views seem to be to the left of any mainstream political party here. For me, that just means that all the mainstream parties are right-wing.

I reserve the term "far-left" for hyper-dogmatic communist revolutionaries who don't object to using violence for political ends.
Prestel was my first online experience, over a 1200/75 baud modem (I just missed the acoustic coupler era, this was mid-80s) and led me onto dialing up many BBSs... much to my fathers gnashing of teeth when the quarterly British Telecom phone bill came through! Phone calls used to be expensive in the UK (even local).

I remember Micro User magazine, wish I still had my collection!
.NET has explicit tailcalls - they were made for and are heavily used by F#.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.reflecti...

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/feat...
I mean, that's just called being rich, which is great work if you can get it, but kinda rude because not everyone can just pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40289120
There's a difference. Compare tiktok getting banned to blocking asml, microchips, etc, there's no contest. One is core to technological advancement, the other is not a necessity. If the USA doesn't want China to compete on their turf then that's fine, but they're preventing china from competing in all other countries as well
The reality is people have 30 year old code bases, and so a messy evolution without breaking backward compatibility is and important part of reality. C++ could have been a much better language without backwards compatibility - but nobody would used it and so what is the point.
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Imagine how fast Phelps could swim with this!
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

~ Fast Eddie Felson
Finswimming appears to be a bit faster according to the 7.9km/h figure they give, and I think using a snorkel and not your arms would make the use of this thing quite more comfortable
Yeah, I knew all that actually, but I guess I just associate dialup with the next generation of computers. Fundamentally I know it's a very similar tech to the tape-based game distribution, but for some reason it's categorized differently in my brain.
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You're saying that NodeJS monolith comes with no downsides compared to Rails at early stages. We disagree here.

From my brief surveys, nodejs ecosystem comes with less security out of the box, less standardized project structures, fewer thoroughly-designed and supported packages (vs cutting edge experiments), more complex upgrade paths, more projects getting abandoned, all of which can slow you down every day. Friction from these can be deadly.

On the other hand, being in the corner at scale doesn't force you to rewrite everything. Just the piece that put you there. You can leave Rails app to handle most things, and extract parts of specialized infra as needed.

Would be curious to look at specifics — what kind of pains your company is experiencing with Rails today.
No, the reason for less than stellar performance of Lisp on the 32bit x86 CPUs were things like too few registers.

On 64bit Intel CPUs this is much less of a problem and Lisp runs roughly twice as fast in 64bit mode. I would think that this even holds without taking advantage of wider data words.

On other architectures this was less of a problem. 32bit CPUs had more registers on a RISC or some other CISC CPUs.
As a front-end interface, JS is pretty good.

- It has simple, straightforward, and pleasant syntax/semantics. Except for a few tweaks here and there, there is no need to re-invent the wheel here.

- It is pretty functional, all that's needed is to add everything-is-an-expression

- It supports multiple paradigms (functional, imperative, OOP)

- Since it has no types currently, a _modern_ type system can be feasibly added, supporting concepts like result/error instead of exceptions, maybe/option, pattern matching, etc.

- It has easy-to-reason about async features

- It has a huge ecosystem; it shouldn't be hard to port many high-quality packages to a similar language

Now, the lower-level features are another matter entirely, but it shouldn't be too difficult to retrofit what we want, like multi-threading (maybe building on top of workers), utf-8 strings, and so on.
Ask HN: Why does everyone need to be an "Engineer" these days?
I'm someone who actually believes that a large number of good software developers treat their profession as an engineering discipline and have earned the title of "Engineer", but I'm a bit perplexed and frustrated by how watered-down the word has gotten in the US. My company has test engineers, which is borderline, but then there's this YC job currently on the front page:

> Odigos (YC W23) Is Hiring Lead DevRel Engineer

Like passing a terrible car accident, I found myself rubbernecking as I scrolled by. They couldn't actually have created a title like that for the job I think that is, could they?

> Responsibilities:

> Content Creation: ...

> Product Advocacy: ...

> Community Engagement: ...

> Support and Training: ...

Oh, yes, they totally did just rebrand developer advocate as an engineering role.

I'm curious to know from those who are in similar roles or who are in positions that allow choosing titles: Why do companies do this? Does giving a community-engagement role an "Engineer" title actually get more or better candidates to apply? Does it somehow increase job satisfaction? What motivates people to use the word "Engineer" in the title when there's nothing even vaguely engineer-y in the job description?

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/keyval/jobs/MOo8djB-lead-devrel-engineer
Is this basically a listing of archive.org's live music archive (LMA)?
I remember having some sort of parent lock on my laptop I got when I was 11. Was the most annoying thing ever. Stopped me from seeing all sorts of totally useful information so I just hacked around it entirely. Instinctively not very on board with too much internet helicopter parenting.
So the universe is a Docker container?
Great for special forces, I guess.
The problem with 4 day work week is it leaves workers with energy they can spend on other things. Good for the workers, bad for those exploiting those workers.
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I was referring to LLM use on the job (or hobby), not as any part of interviewing process.

The reality is that most programmers can go an entire career without being algorithmically challenged, and on the rare occasion you need to do/optimize something and don't know what the best options are, then you can either just ask a colleague, or ask online, or Google, or nowadays discuss it with an AI!
It is the consequence of urban performance myths being propagated by gut feeling.
I had a TRS-80 Color Computer and struggled with a cassette tape interface that was faster than many competitors but wasn't reliable for me. The disc drive I added was more expensive than the computer but it was reliable and could support the OS/9 operating system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9

which was better than the MS-DOS I used later on the much more powerful 286 machine that replaced my Coco 3.
Have you ever looked at a rail map?

California and Indiana both had a population of about 2.7 million in 1916. Indiana had a dense rail network and California didn't. Indiana is only ~5x smaller than California.

This is what the rail network looked like in 1916:

https://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/4400/4401/4401.htm
> Even Putin is predominantly a liberalist.

He's an authoritarian autocrat. I've never come across a definition of "liberal" that includes that.
They have, they're still quite slow.
Alembic Inc. still exists .

Google Maps indicates it moved from Santa Rosa to Rohnert Park.

Rolling Stone article from a decade ago: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dead-wood-is-t...
It's got 15,000 quote tweets and 4,000 responses and skimming over it, they seem overwhelmingly negative about the imagery being used.

https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/1787864325258162239/quot...
> Libyear is a simple measure of dependency freshness

Ooo, that's new to me. I like the idea of quantifying this.
i am not a designer, but have an incredible sense of a good design when i see one.

anyhow, is this on mastedon. nice looking timeline.
Any retiree that bought shares in 2016 is living on a yacht with 1000+% gains. The company is literally one of the greatest engines of retail investor wealth creation in history.
https://youtu.be/jgYYOUC10aM?si=rxaTsdV3kGpQM-SR

Hadn’t seen it, it’s well-executed.
I remember how proud of myself I was when I connected the computer's audio inputs to a standard casette player with speed up function so I could load the games twice as fast.
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Why the coyness? You submitted the post.
The reference WebGPU implementation is in Rust. It's what Bevy, and many other Rust game engines, uses. All discoverable with 5 seconds of google.
Securities fraud again, funny that the guy who "bought Twitter" and shut down free speech ended up getting sued himself due to his own tweet (lying about # of Teslas being produced).

It's like a bully trying to chase someone but tripping over their shoelace in the first step, love it.

On self-driving: For several years the guy has been saying "next month" "next year" it's been like 10+ years at this point. He's a bigger grifter than the Ashes of Creation guy (8 year long Kickstarter MMO that never launched and still collects payments to this day). Wonder why anyone falls for it, feel bad for the gullible.
Biometrics for age verification sounds awful.
Really the problems with any sort of age verification system that uses your real name and ID are leaks, identity theft, and advertising. Imagine your unique ad id is your actual info. Or a leak and your name is tied to pornhub, looking at all the army guys who got exposed on Ashley Madison.
> the problem is totally obvious and trivial to debug.

We live in parallel universes that must have intersected in this thread.
Can one verify age without giving away identity?
hey, felix from the inlang team here — we're already building on top of lix with Sherlock (VS Code extension) and I can't imagine an easier way to build collaborative apps.
Musk cares about colonizing Mars a lot more than houses, and that's a goal that requires much more than $50M-$100M. I agree that it's a critical goal and believe that it would be much delayed if removed from private decision makers by a wealth ceiling.
Have you tried filling your lungs with as much air as possible?
People keep saying this, yet undefined behavior sanitizer proves in the real world it isn't an issue most of the time.

Most real world security issues have nothing to do with code. Social engineering breaks more security than memory issues. We are also skewed by many of the fundamental programs are written in C and so there is a lot of value in finding holes.
I spent a bit of time looking into building your own - from a parts point of view (buying new) you are still looking at £1000 to more like £2500 worth of batteries, controllers, motor and prop, plus the foil and the board you attach it all to. Then you need to make, seal it and make it 'sea worthy' - would be hundreds of hours of work for me.

I'd happily buy a well made new one for £3000 if that was what they cost, but half that price is a new good solid paddle board - so I can see why you can't get the same plus all the electronics you need for £3k.

We can hope in time the costs come down, but as a niche sport, it will be some time, if ever. Have you seen the cost (and service intervals!) of a new jet ski? All simple tech, but they don't come cheap and need a lot of looking after.

I can still dream though.
One road not taken would have been to port the MIT/LMI/TI Lisp Machine software to stock hardware, it was 32-bit until the end so didn't need an Alpha as the host. A fast 68020 with a custom MMU would have been fine. There was only around 12k of "assembler" to rewrite to provide the VM and simple RTOS.
Fyi, Canada has a history of leading change in internet standards (Facebook, 2008). Governments around the world are looking for solutions. When Canada gets a reasonable standard out first, its broad principals tend to be adopted by the larger countries/alliances that generally move more slowly.

As requested below:

https://www.cippic.ca/articles/facebook-may-2008-2010

https://www.denverpost.com/2008/05/31/canada-begins-investig...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/facebook-to-address-canadian...
For sure. I do whatever I can to help them feel comfortable and emphasize the conversational style of the question. I’m not a compiler. I’m a person who wants to talk with them. Yet it’s still a stressful situation for them.

It’s not a good look for them to completely freeze up on something as trivial as fizzbuzz though. I worry how they’d react if production servers are down or if we’re being attacked if they can’t talk through the simplest of programs.
The worst I heard, was one of our sales reps (a woman) came in, with a "weekender" purse (big purse). She was stopped at the door, and wasn't allowed to enter the main hall, for about five minutes, until someone was called over, with one of those huge, hydraulic skateboards they use for moving big furniture.

They put her purse onto the center of the cart, and escorted her to the booth. Then, they got upset she only tipped one guy $5.

I know these are "one-off" stories (and she probably gave attitude), but there's so many of these anecdotes, that it causes huge damage.
> If you want to innovate, why bother in Europe? Taxes are high, VC funding is impossible, the workforce is going to spend half the time working as an American.

What you’re talking about is starting a company, not innovation. The value of innovation isn’t measured by “how much money can I make from this”. The World Wide Web was intended in Europe. So were the first truly popular music streaming and VoIP services.
Yeah I realize I have pretty sloppy timings, courtesy of JEDEC. But despite this, I feel like my new ECC memory runs rings around the old overclocked DDR3 kit I ran in my previous Z97 build. It's all relative.
No, you said "become an independent with a passive income", which sounds a lot more like retiring and living off investments than starting a business.
That's why you must stop contributing your content to other people's projects and start working on your own projects instead.

Do not submit answers to StackOverflow, write articles for your own blog/personal web-site instead.
They're a toy being sold in small numbers to people who live near lakes or can fit driving to the lake with it into their life easily enough to want to buy it - good proxy for having a bit of disposable income to throw around. Market can bear a high price, not enough volume to make competition appealing => ££££
I have no idea whether Katherine Maher is currently or was some sort of intelligence agent or not, though having seen the fact pattern the theory is far from crazy. What I do know is that she is a stereotypical insane phony wokie (I don't think she genuinely believes any of this stuff, it's just good for business and her bank account and status) and that alone disqualifies her from running anything other than a soup kitchen in my book. NPR makes the ACLU look like it's staying true to its mission.
What's the difference between stealing $100 in cash versus stealing $100 from someone's digital account?
As an electrical engineer who has basically always worked as an embedded programmer, I don't know what big O is. But, I'm probably not applying for your open positions.
You are kidding right? Dawn of everything was a synthesis work. The amount of research it references is insane (a quarter of the book is references) How exactly would you write, an already long book, that doesn't look like cherry picking by those that disagree with the content?